What Immutable’s Chris Clay Learned in 23 Years of Game Development Immutable VP & Gods Unchained Game Director Chris Clay tells Decrypt’s Kate Irwin about what it’s like to work in the game industry for decades and why he’s not giving up on NFT games. Source: https://decrypt.co/videos/interviews/lpOWjBfU/what-immutables-chris-clay-learned-in-23-years-of-game-development
On May 19, James K. Filan, a defense attorney and ex-federal prosecutor who has been closely monitoring the SEC vs Ripple case for the past few years, shared an update regarding the potential unsealing of the Hinman documents for public access. According to a tweet on Twitter, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and Ripple Labs have filed a “joint Letter…
Authorities today hit a Las Vegas man with charges related to the CoinDeal crypto fraud scheme. The U.S. Department of Justice alleged on Friday that 57-year-old Bryan Lee worked with others to defraud more than 10,000 investors out of $45 million. Investigators say CoinDeal was a blockchain technology investment scheme which involved a new cryptocurrency and the metaverse. It promised…
The recovery in Bitcoin and most major altcoins halted near respective overhead resistance levels, indicating that the bears are active at higher levels. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/price-analysis-5-19-btc-eth-bnb-xrp-ada-doge-matic-sol-dot-ltc
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s New York Innovation Center (NYIC) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have published the results of their joint Project Cedar Phase II x Ubin+ (Cedar x Ubin+). The project examined the use of central bank digital currency for wholesale cross-border payments using one or more vehicle currencies. A vehicle currency is a…
The 30% excise tax that President Joe Biden has proposed for Bitcoin miners? “That isn’t going to happen,” said Sen. Cynthia Lummis. She was speaking to Chamber of Digital Commerce founder and CEO Perianne Boring during a fireside chat at the Bitcoin 2023 conference in Miami. Boring had just brought up the possible tax and how it might affect not…
DeFi project Swaprum has disappeared with client funds totaling $3 million in what appears to be a rug pull, just weeks after it was audited by CertiK. Now people are pointing fingers at CertiK, saying it approved “another rug pull.” Security firm PeckShield said on Twitter that the money was in the form of Ethereum and the “scammers” used popular…
U.S. Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming held a fireside chat with the founder and CEO of Chamber of Digital Commerce Perianne Boring during the Bitcoin 2023 event in Miami on May 19. The topics of discussion were the importance of Bitcoin to U.S. national and energy security and the upcoming legislation surrounding cryptocurrency, blockchain, and related technologies. Lummis described…
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK) will be the first presidential candidate in United States history to accept campaign donations with Bitcoin, making his first appearance as a presidential candidate at the crypto conference. He praised the cryptocurrency as a “symbol of democracy and freedom” during the event. “Today we show the world the power and the durability…
TBD, a division of fintech company Block, which is led by CEO Jack Dorsey, has announced a novel Web5 decentralized web platform at Bitcoin Miami on May 19. The platform aims to introduce “decentralized identity and data storage” to applications, thereby allowing developers to leverage the technology to create “delightful user experiences, while returning ownership of data and identity to…
